contain an email address. Children’s Health had this data
available for matching on many of the queries.

5. Lack of phone number. The data that was sent from the
SSA did not contain a phone number. Children’s Health
had this data available for match on many of the queries.

Data Analysis Results

In the first quarter of 2017, Children’s Health presented the
results of its data analysis of the opportunity match group to
SSA. The SSA was convinced that additional data would help
but needed time to evaluate:

1. If the data was routinely collected

2. If the collection of the data would require a change in the
SSA application process

3. If technology infrastructure would support sending theadditional data elementsAt a meeting conducted during the second quarter of 2017,the SSA confirmed that the phone number and email addressare captured, stored as a part their processes, and that its tech-nology infrastructure could support the exchange of the ad-ditional data. SSA communicated that the phone number andemail address data elements would be included in data match-ing requests in late August 2017.